Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] We are told Montesinos ‘breached army regulations’ prior to 1977; we are not told he was put on trial by the leftist Velasco regime as a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super-secret videotapes reached […]

Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Dr Gottlieb. Back in 1952, Glickman, an American citizen, was an artist in Paris. In his suit against Dr Gottlieb, Glickman claims that Gottlieb or some other agent of the United States government placed LSD in his drink at the Cafe Select in Paris in October 1952. According to Glickman, an acquaintance had asked […]

Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] that the new material on Murrell is based on a prison whisper. Murray is convinced that ‘the person in charge of the attack was a former MI5 agent who has left the service to run a private detective agency’ (Staines and Egham News, 12 August 1993), and works five minutes from Marble Arch (Outlook, […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

Book Reviews Gerry Healey: A Revolutionary Life Corinna Lotz and Paul Feldman Lupus Books, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR, £15.00 Ken Livingstone MP was given a large chunk of a page of the Guardian (tabloid section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye … Read more

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] was seeking additional aid to the Contras. CBS Evening News (7-28-88) – the only major network to cover the proceedings – reported on the testimony of DEA agent Ernest Jacobsen, who said that White House officials undermined a DEA probe of the Colombian cocaine kingpins by blowing an undercover informant’s cover when they leaked […]

Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Robert Whiting, New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. ISBN 0-679-41976-4.   Sergeant Nick Zappetti first arrived in Japan during the late summer of 1945, one of the tens of thousands of US occupation troops who landed there after V-J Day. Unlike most of the others, Zappetti immediately went into business for himself and set up a … Read more

The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] one of the members of Rhodes’ circle, “a brilliant young graduate of Cambridge, Jan Smuts, who had been a vigorous supporter of Rhodes and acted as his agent in Kimberley as late as 1895 and who was one of the most important members of the Rhodes-Milner group in the period 1908-1950 …. became the […]

The Red Hand

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] 1 Assassination Team’); and the role of James Miller, the mid-1970s version of Brian Nelson. Take a bow MI5, for penetrating the UDA completely, twice getting an agent into the role of UDA ‘intelligence officer’. Bruce, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, who had previously worked for over a decade at […]

USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 … Read more

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

Kissinger Commission Letter in International Herald Tribune 22nd January 1984 from one Eugene L. Stockwell who testified before the Kissinger Commission on Central America. He writes: “During my hour and a half testimony most of the commissioners repeatedly indicated that they believed today’s Nicaragua to be as bad or worse than Nicaragua under Somoza; Mr … Read more

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